jet bomber

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The Gloster Meteor was the first jet warplane to enter the war, and the English Electric Canberra high speed jet bomber was adapted by the American Air Force as the B-57.

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2018

Test pilots of the new planes – Gloucester Meteors, Britain's first jet fighter, the Canberra, the first jet bomber in the world, Javelins, Lancasters, Halifaxes, Sterlings – were heroes.

From The Guardian • Aug. 29, 2012

Roy Jenkins, after 16 years as a backbencher, was given the Aviation Ministry, where his most controversial task has been to wipe out the costly TSR 2 jet bomber.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wayne Parrish was the first Western newsman to confirm that the Russians had converted their TU-104, the Tupolev medium jet bomber, into a commercial air transport.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the men around the table were as modern as a jet bomber.

From Call Him Savage by Pollard, John